Ex-politician in prison for adoption scam gets 5 more years

Paul Petersen knew the birth mothers involved in the scheme didn’t meet an Arizona requirement that Medicaid recipients live in the state, prosecutors say.

(Jacques Billeaud | AP file photo) In 2019, then-Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, right, and his attorney, Kurt Altman, are photographed as they leave a court hearing in Phoenix. Petersen has acknowledged he ran an illegal adoption scheme in Arizona, Arkansas and Utah.

Ex-politician in prison for adoption scam gets 5 more years

Paul Petersen knew the birth mothers involved in the scheme didn’t meet an Arizona requirement that Medicaid recipients live in the state, prosecutors say.

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